said on Cam Heyward\u2019s podcast<\/a> that Roethlisberger was a bad teammate, and he never wants to hear Roethlisberger talk about the Steelers because the Steelers don\u2019t respect Roethlisberger.<\/p>\n\u201cHe should never grab a microphone and really talk Steeler business,\u201d Porter said. \u201cIf we\u2019re talking Steelers business, his ass is foul of all foul. The shit that he did is foul of all foul. He\u2019s not a good teammate. Won a Super Bowl with him, but the person? He\u2019s just not a good teammate. He knows that. Anybody in the Steeler building knows that. But we protected him because I\u2019ve only won one Super Bowl, and that was my quarterback. So do I love my quarterback? Yeah. But is he a good person? No.\u201d<\/p>\n
As an example of how Roethlisberger\u2019s teammates felt about him, Porter said that players had previously voted for team captains, but when Roethlisberger became the starting quarterback, he was named team captain without voting because the coaches knew Roethlisberger\u2019s teammates wouldn\u2019t vote for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause if he wasn\u2019t a captain he\u2019d probably throw a hissy fit,\u201d Porter said. \u201cNobody\u2019s going to vote for him for captain because he doesn\u2019t have captain qualities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heyward, who was a teammate of Roethlisberger\u2019s for 11 years on the Steelers, did not indicate whether he agreed with Porter, but he didn\u2019t express any disagreement while Porter used Heyward\u2019s podcast as a platform to bash Roethlisberger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joey Porter Sr. and Ben Roethlisberger were teammates on the Steelers for three years, which included winning Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-463169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}